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Posted on 09/22/2017 2:42:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Some Orange County residents were stunned Thursday, Sept. 21, when television programming was suddenly interrupted for about a minute with an ominous message predicting the end of the world.
Stacy Laflamme of Lake Forest said she was watching the HGTV channel via Cox Communications about 11:05 a.m. when suddenly an emergency alert flashed across her screen followed by a voice.
“Realize this, extremely violent times will come,” a man’s voice boomed, according to a video of the alert.
Laflamme said she was alarmed.
“It almost sounded like Hitler talking,” she said. “It sounded like a radio broadcast coming through the television.”
In addition to Cox, Spectrum cable customers in Orange County received the alert.
Erin Mireles of Diamond Bar was watching the Bravo channel on Spectrum’s cable system when her show was interrupted by the alert.
“I was definitely startled, ’cause the volume increased exponentially,” she said. “I wasn’t alarmed in the sense of thinking something was wrong, ’cause I assumed it was some sort of hack. My channel changed back to Bravo after a couple minutes.”
The mysterious alert became a hot topic on social media.
The problem occurred because of one or more radio stations conducting an emergency test, Joe Camero, a spokesman for Cox, said Thursday.
Cable systems pick up such alerts, and viewers should have seen just a typical emergency-broadcast test.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
“Realize this, extremely violent times will come,”...
My ex is back in town?
If the airwave pirates took over for only a couple of minutes, then that’s okay.
However, if they took over for nearly an hour in the same way that John Galt did in Atlas Shrugged, then they would have easily lost their audience.
This was the only part of Atlas Shrug that rang false: who in the heck would listen to an hour-long, dry, philosophical diatribe over the airwaves? Yes, I know, Castro was able to do so, but he was able to compel his subjects to just sit there and take it. Not so with Team Galt.
BABY BOOM IN JUNE !
Chef: “Think about it: Dead people getting up and walking around, and Tina Yothers comin’ to town? Coincidence?? Oooh I don’t think so!”
- South Park
Two different cable providers (satellites)??
definitely aliens
“Realize this, extremely violent times will come,” a man’s voice boomed, according to a video of the alert.
“The problem occurred because of one or more radio stations conducting an emergency test, Joe Camero, a spokesman for Cox, said Thursday.”
I haven’t lived all over the world, merely half of it and have never heard a radio emergency test this alarming.
I hate when the end of the world interrupts TV.
Women and minorities hardest hit
And she's got the devil in her eyes and a bounced alimony check. Run DP!!
“...everything is Gesundheit, kaput und verboten!”
But what about my stories?
Of all the words to just happen to slip out over the airwaves just as the hack happened....seems a little odd.
“Thanks, everyone, the world has ended. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming....”
NO "emergency test" uses that verbiage.
John Galt was the first thing that popped into my mind as well.
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